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Big mask

Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
Vendu 700 €
Provenance
Ladislas Segy, New York, USA
Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany (1979)
Taille
H: 24 cm
H: 9.4 inch

Description

wood, blackish grey encrusted patina, darkened kaolin, sacrificial traces (feathers), with narrow slit eyes, grooved chaplet and a large protruding mouth, dam., minor missing parts, partly spread with mass, traces of old age;
presumably belonging to the mask figure “ganwrewrä”, which performed in the circumcision camps and belonged to the “go” society.


Littérature comparée

Fischer, Eberhard, Himmelheber, Hans, Die Kunst der Dan, Zürich 1976, ill. 103

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